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CONSECUTIVE NUMBERING MACHINE.

No. 850,640. Patented Oct. 12, 1886.

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J. H. REINHARDT.

CONSECUTIVE NUMBERING MACHINE.

Patented Oct. 12, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEICE.

JAMES H. REINHAR-lil'l, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR OF OXE- HALF TO JOSEPH XVETTER, OF SAME PLACE.

CONSECUTIVE-NUMBERING MACHINE.

JLLLCEFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,640, dated Qctober 12, 1886.

A milication filed Oct lcr i7, 188

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. REINIIARDT, of Memphis, in the county of Shelbyand State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in OonsecutiveNumbei-ing Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

My invention relates to that class of con,- sccutive-numbering machines adapted to be set in a form of type and to be automatically actuated by the movements of the printingprcss uponwhich the form is placed, and more particularly to the specific form of said machines describedin. Letters Patent ot' the Uni ted States No. 318,803, bearing date May 26, 1885.

The object of my invention is to adapt these machines for use in a cylinder press for the purpose of printing by the million conseclr tively-nnmbered tickets at the rate, if desired, of one thousand at each impression.

It consists in'the combination, with stops at either end of the frame orstationarybed-plate of a cylinder printing-machine and with the traveling bed moving thereon, of actuatingstrips inserted in longitudinal grooves in the traveling bed, provided with pins or lugs to engage the swinging pawl-frames of numbering heads or machines fixed. upon said bed, and of cam-strips or movable type-plates fitted upon the mimberingmachines, the movable strips in the traveling bed and upon the nunibering-machincs being made to move lon gitudinally by contact with, the stops at the completion of the movement of the traveling bed in either direction.

In the accompanying drawings 7 Figure 1 isa view in perspective of a cylinder-press having my invention applied thereto,with butone ol'its inking-rollers shown, Fig. 1 being a detached sectional detail, on an enlarged scale, of the pivotal stop at one end. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the traveling bed of the press and of the outer end of its fixed frame, with one only of the inking-rollers shown in position, and with consecutive-numbering machines of different forms fixed upon the bed. Fig. 3 is a section,

on an enlarged scale, of one of the single-num- Serial No. 180,l3-l. No model.)

boring machines or numbering heads in line :(1 :c of Fig. 2. Fig. is a transverse section of the same in line 3 got Fig. 3. Fig. 5isa view in perspective and upon an enlarged scale of a portion of one side of a consecutive-numbering machine,with a movable type-plateadapt:- cd to be used with a cylinder-press in printing one thousand consecutivelynumbered tickets at each movement of the bed, the numberingtion, illustrating the combination therewith of aradially-adjustable type-section for the ciphcr.

A A represent the frame, B the cylinder, O

the fixed bed-plate, and D the traveling bed,

of acylinder printingpress of any approved form. The traveling bed D, upon which the l'orm of type to be printed. is locked, is made to reciprocate back and forth from front to rear under the cylinder 13, and thetypethereon are inked by suitable rollers in the usual manner. The details of mechanism for accomplishing these ends need not herein be particularly described, and are not shown in the drawings.

In the upper face of the traveling bed D a series of parallel longitudinal grooves or rccesses, E D, are cut to extend from end to end thereof. These grooves are reduced in. width by reason of longitudinal offsets r 1* (see Fi 3) on each side thereof, forming ledges UpOll'go which to support a longitudinal covering strip or plate, F. This plate F is made to fit closely in the groove E, and to fill the upper portion thereof flush with the face of the bed, so that when the strip is inserted therein the face of 5 the bed may be used for the ordinary purposes of the press as if unbroken. (See Figs. 1 and 3.) Each covering-strip F may be made in one piece to extend the entire length of the groove, or be made in. sections, as shown at F I00 F in Fig. 2, to cover the groove between the numbering-heads fitted thereon, to permit of bed of 65 '1 setting type and furniture over the groove between the headsas well as around them.

The central depression of the groove E is made rectangular in cross-section, as shown in Figs. 3 and 8, and by removing the coveringstrip F outof the groove a second longitudinal strip, G, may be inserted therein to slide longitudinally in said central depression. This movable strip G is made of a length exceeding that of the bed D, so as to project out beyond the ends thereof. (See Fig. 2.)

A fixed stopplate, H, (see Fig. 2,) is secured at one end of the press in line with the bed D, so that when the bed has completed its movement in that direction its end will touch the stop-plate, and the movable strips G G, projecting beyond the bed, will, by coming into contact with the stop-plate, be forced inward.

At the opposite end of the press a second stop-plate, H, is pivoted upon a rockshaft, H, (see Figs. 1, 2, and 1,) so that it may be swung up into register with the plane of movement of the traveling bed D in position to touch the end of the bed at the moment its travel in that direction is completed. When thus swung up, it operates to force i'nward the projecting strips G G as the bed completes its movement. The movement of the rock-shaft H, carrying the stop-plate, is effected by means of a lever, H placed within reach of the operator manipulating the press, and which is connected by a coupling-rod, L, to an arm, L, projecting from one end of the shaft H, as shown in Fig. 1.

Each movable strip G is fitted with a series of pins, 11 i, to project upwardly therefrom above the level of the bed D. (See Figs. 1, 3, 4, and 8.) These pins may be made detachable to admit of insertion in holes in the strip, so as to adapt them to various positions of the numberingheads upon the bed.

The numbering-heads for use with the cylinder-pres may be constructed each of a set of numbering type-wheels, a a a, (see Figs. 3 and 4,) mounted to rotate freely upon afixed axial shaft, 1), in a frame or casing, M. Each type-wheel has a concentric ratchet-wheel, 0, formed or secured upon one side thereof and a blank wheel, e, of the same diameter upon its opposite face, this blank-wheel being omitted, however, from the last type-wheel in the set.

The type-wheels a a are of pawls m m upon arms projecting from the cross-bar K of a frame, a n, suspended from the axial shaft at each end to swing under the type-wheels. The pawls m m are fitted to rest one upon each of the ratchet-wheels c, to engage its teeth, and are made wide enough to rest also upon the periphery of the adjacent blank wheel 6, so that said blank wheel shall prevent an engagementof the pawl m with the ratchet 0, except as permitted by a notch cut in the periphery of the blank wheel 6 opposite the number 9 on the periphery of the type wheel to which it is secured; hence each type-wheel on the left, beginning with actuated by means the unit-whee1, is actuated by its pawl once only in the revolution of the type-wheel next to the right. To avoid, in numbering con seeutively with the device, an imprint of the ciphers on the several wheels preceding the first in the numbering-head before they are required, I form the type for the cipher for each of said wheels upon a detachable mova-. ble section, 10, (see Fig. 9,) adapted to fit in a radial slot extending to the center of the wheel. The section is made of such a length as that when inserted in the slot with its inner end resting upon the periphery of the fixed shaft 1) the type shall be in line of print. A fiat face, 11, is cut away upon the upper side of the shaft b, so that the section 10, when in register with said recess, may drop inward sufficiently to bring its type out of line for print. (See dotted lines, Fig. 9.) The section 10 is confined in its slot by means of a lateral spring, 12, which permits also a slight play of the section transversely to the axis of the wheel. When thrown out, the section is supported by an offset, 13, at its outer end, which, by the action of the spring 12, is carried over the edge of the slot into a rabbet eut therein. This construction of the numberingheads is similar to that described in the Letters Patent No. 318,803, hereinbefore mentioned, but for use in connection withthe traveling bed of a cylinder-press fitted with the movable strips G G the plunger for actuating the swinging pawl-frame found in said patented machines is omitted and the lower bar, K, of the frame in each is slotted or perforated to receive the end of one of the pins '5 i, projecting from the strips G G, (see Figs. 4, 6, and 8,) whereby, when the numbering head is fitted upon the bed B of the printingpress over one of said strips G, the engagement of a pin, z, with the swingingframe of the numbering-head will, when the strip moves in one direction, oscillate the frame far enough to produce thereby a movement of the typewheels, and in the opposite direction to carry back the pawls m on into position to engage each another ratchet-tooth. The reciprocating movement of each strip G, produced by the contact of its ends alternately with the stops H H in the movement of the traveling bed to and fro under the impression-cylinder," will thus operate to cause asingle movement of the typewheels in each numbering-head fixed upon the traveling bed over the strip after each imprint from the type.

When it is desired to repeat the impression of the numbers without change thereof, the

"movable stop H is dropped out of contact with the ends of the strips G G, so that no movement of said strips will be produced.

To facilitate printing upon the'cylinderpress, a series of consecutively-numbered tickets numbering several thousands at the rate of one thousand at each impression, I construct the numbering-machines each with a case, M, (see Fig. 7,) about equal in length to that of the traveling bed D of the press, and

with fifty sets of type-wheels mounted upon axial rods b I), transversely to the length of the case, each set of wheels being actuated by a swinging pawl-frame, a, in manner as above described, to be engaged by one of the pins, i, upon one of the strips G on the traveling bed of the press. Along the left-hand man gin of the case M, I provide anedge plate, P, wide enough to carry fixed type representing the figures from 1 to 50 in consecutive order, the type being brought into a common plane for print with the type on the type-wheels a a, and each in line with one set of said wheels, as shown in Figs. 5 and (i. To print the first one thousand tickets, l. fit in a recess at the left of the edge plate P, and between it and the type-wheels, a longitudinally-niovable strip, 1%, of the samelength as the case M, and upon this movable st rip It, 1 form or airix ciphers in type to fill out, in connection with the fixed type on the edge plate 1, three places of figures at the left ofeach set of wheels-viz with two ciphers opposite the first nine digits, and then, by means of an offset, 8, in the strip, whereby it is narrowed at this point, wit-h one cipher opposite the remaining forty double figures in the column.

The bottom of the recess in which the strip R moves longitudinally and the under side of the strip itself are each formed with a series of offsets,formed by transverse notches if '1 i, (see Fig. 5,) having a bevel of a length corre sponding to the interval longitudinally between the several figures on the edge plate P, and the type are so placed upon the strip as that when they are brought into register and line between the fixed type on the edge plate P and those on the wheels (1, a of each set the oppositeinclined surl'aces shall so ride up one upon the other as to elevate the strip R high enough to bring the lace ol' the type thereon into the same plane for print as are the type on the edge plate 1 and on the wheels, whore upon the strip is engaged and held last by a spring-catch, l-t, inserted in a recess in the inner side face of the strip 1; to project slightly therefrom into socket in the opposite face of the strip it. \Vhile the pressure of the catch is sut'ticient to hold the strip in position against ordinary pressure, it, may be disengaged and released by pushing the strip forcibly with the finger. 13y releasing the catch and moving the strip longitudinally the projections or ofisets thereon sliding down into the notches in the recess will lower the face of the strip so as to carry the type thereon below the level for print. When in this position, the end of the strip projects beyond the case at that end of the edge plate bearing the highest number.

The strip R is of such length as that when the traveling bed D of the press reaches the end of its movement alter the first impression the end of the strip will strike the stop H and be thereby moved inward to carry the typethere on up into line of print with the fixed type and the wheels, hence while at the first impression the fixed type, from. 1. to 999,with the last 000, will, with the first figure on the last 005 or 015 or 099and so fill outthe figures ofthe first thousands, indicated by the first typewheel in each set except the last, together with the second figure in said last set thus, 1005 or 1015, &c. At the next move ment of the press the first wheels in every set will be automatically changed by the move ment of the underlying strip G to indicate the second thousand-thus, 2005, 2015, 2098, 3000. i

In the numberingmachines by which the second, the third, fourth, and successive hundreds up to nine in the series of one thousand are printed the movable strip it is omitted, and the three places of figures to the right are represented by appropriate type fixed or formed directly upon the marginal plate P of the casing, at the right of the wheels--thus, 100, or 105, or 115, or 1510, &c., in the first; 200, 205, 215, 290, &e., in the second; 500, 501, 505, 500, &c., in the fifth, and so on. By the change in the numbering-wheels after each imprint the figures for print become 1100, 1200, etc, then 2100, 2200, &c., then 3100, 3200, &c., up to a million or more.

in the operation of my improved numbering-machines having fifty sets of typewheels in combination with the slotted traveling-bed of a cylinder-press provided with movable strips (1 G and with stops H H, as described, when it is desired to number one thousand tickets at each impression, the type-wheels are all first set to 0, excepting the first wheel in the last set, which is set to 1. The ciphers are depressed out of line of print, and the movable typostriplt on the first machincin thcseries is pushed outward so as to bring the type thereon also out of line of print. Thefirstiinpression taken from the series will print aset of of tickets with consecutive numbers from 1 up to one 1000. As the bed moves back from the impression-cylinder to be inked and reaches the end of its travel the movable type-strip R on the first machine in the series striking against the stop-plate H will be forced inward andcarry its type into line of print with the fixed type and type-wheels, while simnltaneousl y the strips G G, also striking the stop-plate H, will be forced inward, and in their movement will produce a movement of the swinging pawl-frame under each set of type-wheels, which will operate to move the first wheel in each set from 0 to 1, excepting the last, which is moved from 1 to 2, hence at the next impression taken by the press from the machines a set of tickets will be printed with consecutive numbers from 1001 to 2000. At the next move the type-wheels are all changed, one number to print2001. up to 3000, and so on.

IIO

Where it is not required to,print so large a number of tickets, a sufficient number of the consecutive numbering machines, each ineluding one or more sets of numberingwheels, as shown in Fig. 5, are fitted in order upon the traveling bed Dof the press, (see the small machine in Fig. 1,) so that their swinging pawl-frames shall engage each one of the pins '5 upon the movable strips G,whose operation, as described, will automatically produce a change in the type-wheels, as required, after each impression taken therefrom.

' I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with the frame and traveling bed of a cylinder printing-machine, a movable bar or strip'fitted to play lengthwise in a groove in said bed and project from either end thereof, and a stop on the frame operating to force the bar inward as the bed completes its movement, of a numbering-machine comprising several sets of numberingwheels actuated by a swinging pawl-frame and mounted upon the bed, a pin projecting from the movable bar-to engage said swinging frame, an extended lateral type-plate fixed upon the edge of the numbering-machine carryingtype in register with each set of numbering-wheels, an extended movable type-plate notched trans 1 versely upon its under side and riding upon counterpart notches in the bottom of a recess between the fixed type-plate and the numbering-wheels, and which projects parallel with the movable bar or strip to engage simultaneously therewith the stop on the frame, and a catch for confining the movable typeplate when forced inward by'contact with the stop to bring its type into register and line of print with those on the fixed plate and numbering-wheels, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The combination, with the traveling bed of a cylinder printing-machine, and with a movable bar and strip fitted to play longitudinally within and project at either end from a groove in said bed, a numbering-head fixed upon the bed over the groove, a swinging pawl-frame actuating the numbering-wheels 'in the head, and a pin projecting from the movable bar or strip to engage the pawl frame,

I of movable stop mounted upon the frame of the machine at one end of the travel of the bed, and a lever actuating said stop to move it into and out of line of engagement with the movable bar or strip carried by the bed, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

3. The combination, wit-h the traveling bed of a cylinder printing machine, a movable actuating bar or strip fitted to play lengthwise in a groove in said bed and to project beyond the ends thereof, and one or more num= bering-heads mounted upon the bed over the bar to be actuated by its movement, of sectional covering-plates F F, fitting in the groove above the movable bar and flush with the face of the bed, to permit the placing of type and furniture around the numbering head without interfering with the movement of said bar, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set fort-h.

4. The combination, in a numbering-head, of five or more parallel sets of numberingwheels, a single swinging pawl-frame actuating each and every set of wheels, a type-plate fixed upon the lateral edge of the casing of the head and bearing numeral types to register in line of print with those upon each set of typewheels, a second parallel movable type-plate fitted in a recess between said fixed type-plate and the wheel, bearing ciphers arranged to be brought by a longitudinal movement of the plate intoand out of register and line of print with the numerals upon the fixed type-plate, and which is formed with a continuous series of transverselongitudinally-beveled notches on its under side to ride upon counterpart notches within the recess, and a catch automatically engaging and confining said movable type plate when brought into line of print with the fixed type-plate, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name, to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Vitnesses:

J. F. ACKER, J r., A. B. MooRE.

JAMES H. REINHARDT. 

